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How to set conky to load at startup?

How to set conky to load at startup?

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This totally depends on DE/WM. Which one you are using?

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Originally Posted by bnguyen (Post 4154275)

This totally depends on DE/WM. Which one you are using?

What is DE/WM?

I use xfce slackware 13.1

Desktop Environment (like KDE, GNOME, XFCE) / Window Manager (like Openbox, Fluxbox)

In XFCE, you go to Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart, then add an entry there.

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Originally Posted by bnguyen (Post 4154343)

Desktop Environment (like KDE, GNOME, XFCE) / Window Manager (like Openbox, Fluxbox)

In XFCE, you go to Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart, then add an entry there.

I see conky load, but when wallpaper is loaded it desappears...

change your conky config file

own_window_type desktop
own_window_type normal

This should fix your disappearing conky.

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Originally Posted by Daedra (Post 4154442)

change your conky config file

own_window_type desktop
own_window_type normal

This should fix your disappearing conky.

Fixed!!! But display in window mode that user able to close the application..

Thanks!

own_window_type desktop - would be prefereable...
Any idea?

The only way I know of to get desktop mode to work is to disable xfce from drawing the wallpaper by killing the xfdesktop process. Then I use compiz wallpaper plugin to draw my wallpaper. the trade off though is that you lose the ability to have icons on your desktop. I have yet to find a permanent fix for this with KDE or Xfce.

I have this working in KDE, with the ability to have desktop icons, etc... It took me days to figure out how to configure it properly. It was all in the conkyrc configuration. I don't have that computer with my right now, but when I get home from work, I will post my conkyrc, maybe my configuration will work in xfce also.

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Originally Posted by lewisforlife (Post 4154867)

That would be great... I was going to install conky for my kde desktop.

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Originally Posted by lewisforlife (Post 4154867)

I didn't word that right, what I meant was I have never been able to use
own_desktop_type desktop with default KDE settings. Conky always disappears behind the plasma desktop unless I use own_desktop_type normal. I use compiz to draw my wallpaper so its not an issue anymore, but I am still interested if someone has a fix.

Here is my KDE set up. I have some stuff in there detecting my CPU temp, so you may want to take that out because it is specific to my comp, but other than that, try this and see if it works in XFCE:

Code:

alignment top_right

background no

border_width 1

cpu_avg_samples 2

default_color white

default_outline_color white

default_shade_color white

double_buffer yes

draw_borders no

draw_graph_borders yes

draw_outline no

draw_shades no

use_xft yes

xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12

gap_x 5

gap_y 60

minimum_size 5 5

net_avg_samples 2

no_buffers yes

out_to_console no

out_to_stderr no

extra_newline no

own_window yes

own_window_argb_visual yes

own_window_class Conky

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

own_window_transparent yes

own_window_type normal

stippled_borders 0

update_interval 1.0

uppercase no

use_spacer none

show_graph_scale no

show_graph_range no



TEXT

${scroll 35 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }

$hr

${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime

${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq

${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g

${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}

${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}

${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}

${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

$hr

${color grey}File systems:

 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}

 /home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar 6 /home}

${color grey}Networking:

 Up:$color ${upspeed wlan0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed 

wlan0}

${color grey}Temperature

 $color ${execi 1 sed 's/ [ ]*/ /' /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ATF0/temperature}

 $color ${execi 1 sed 's/ [ ]*/ /' /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/DTS0/temperature}

 $color ${execi 1 sed 's/ [ ]*/ /' /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/DTS1/temperature}



$hr

${color grey}Name              PID  CPU%  MEM%

${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}

${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}

${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}

${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}